insurrectionaries

noun

plural of insurrectionary
as in rebels
a person who rises up against authority only a small band of insurrectionaries who were willing to stand up to the dictator

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  1. rebels
  2. insurgents
  3. revolutionaries
Noun
  • The most recent, Vietnam, was won by the communist rebels, and that country is stable today.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2026
  • In December 2024, Syrian rebels streamed into Damascus in a surprise attack that toppled President Bashar al-Assad and put an end to more than 13 bloody years of civil war.
    — Emily Feng, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of rebels
Noun
  • Khalilzad on Friday wrote on X that there had been reports of Pakistan arming Afghans to fight the Taliban inside Afghanistan and of the Pakistani military recruiting Afghans to fight anti-Pakistan insurgents.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Gavroche and the insurgents of 1832—the wretched who became rioters—were ready to die defending a particular vision of the republic against the July Monarchy and the usurper Louis-Philippe.
    — Ollivier Pourriol, Vanity Fair, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of insurgents
Noun
  • Like his fellow revolutionaries, Jefferson recoiled from such aspects of empire, past and present.
    — Jackson Lears, Harpers Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026
  • But, even then, American socialists walked a fine line—they were considered too radical for the mainstream and a mere bourgeois affectation by committed class revolutionaries.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of revolutionaries
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